Preview widgets with state lose state when device rotation triggers a change in the number of preview widget columns

[Albert Astals Cid]

There's a few preview widgets that have state (i.e. when adding text to a new comment, or when doing an inline video preview), that state will get lost if changing the orientation of the device gets us more or less columns since old preview widgets will be deleted and new ones will be created.

We need either a way to reuse the preview widgets (probably hard) or a way to save/restore the information on destroy/creation.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity8 - 8.14+16.10.20160922-0ubuntu1

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unity8 (8.14+16.10.20160922-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

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